Both companies are owned by a large Japanese conglomerate. They got lucky with indeed, and have used little of its unbelievable market share to solidify it’s position and improve the product. Indeed, properly managed, would print money and go parabolic as a stock. Instead it’s just sat there because both sites suck and exist on inertia.

You would enjoy 419eater.com

Sorry, $45m and a starter home which barely exists is like 500k minimum? So one can buy one of the biggest buildings in the city for 90x a starter home? Wow.

It must to reflect the current high vacancy reality of a business model (commercial real estate) serving a base that doesn’t now and is unlikely to exist in the future; white collar, on-site work. Someone much bigger than a local CEO would have bought it (REIT, another bank, etc. but they’re already nervous about similar real estate on their books). Many potential commercial property buyers don’t care if it’s a warzone if there is money to be made off leasees.

It’s funny how the permissive zoning for businesses hollowed out cities thanks to zero residential or sustainable community development, and city governments everywhere didn’t GAF the last 50 years as long as that sweet tax money was coming in. Meanwhile, downtowns are dead and there is a gaping hole of residential housing–especially efficient, dense residential housing. Gee, wonder what the solution would have been? This is the real reason the city of Portland is forcing its employees back on site–they don’t want to look bad not having skin in the game in their own city.

I was on the fence about attending a world cup (it would be my first) when the sleaze has been trying to say it’s “his” for the last year. Since FIFA has been corrupt forever it probably means I won’t be able to enjoy it as much because I’ll be considering what I’d be endorsing. It’s disappointing, I’ve wanted to go to one since I was a kid but considering there will probably be ICE raids in the concourse or psychopaths trying to drive trucks into the crowd to kill the [insert group] I’ll have to forgo it.

I’m surprised I have heard anything about boycott here–therr was a ton of push for that during Qatar build up around human rights, and nothing for this? I’d hope the US gets boycotted by whole nations ala East German/Russian Olympics.

I was on the fence about attending a world cup (it would be my first) when the sleaze has been trying to say it’s “his” for the last year. Since FIFA has been corrupt forever it probably means I won’t be able to enjoy it as much because I’ll be considering what I’d be endorsing. It’s disappointing, I’ve wanted to go to one since I was a kid but considering there will probably be ICE raids in the concourse or psychopaths trying to drive trucks into the crowd to kill the [insert group] I’ll have to forgo it.

I’m surprised I have heard anything about boycott here–therr was a ton of push for that during Qatar build up…

What a life, lived.

Thanks for this link. So amazing to get to see real convo not from corporate media.

The US already state sponsors capitalism with tax breaks–only instead of understanding the race for better cars didn’t end in 1983, US automakers have poured most of that into share buybacks, dividends, executive comp and other things that leech long-term growth prospects from the company.

Right. Off.

The Democrats need no further help getting to an impotent place.

Between skeletal structure, evolution and biology we have a damn good idea. While we may not know exactly what skin color adapted to a given period 70 million years ago in a certain region or how much feathers some might have had I guess I understood we had a compelling body of ideas drawn from research at this point for many species. What are the parts you’re referring to that are so unknown?

Haha, I bought 200 shares at $10.12 and sold at $12 along with a bit of other stocks I had because I needed a down payment for my house. After splits since, last time I decided to depress myself looking at one of those calculators it would be like 800k.

I’ve learned playing (free) poker though, you’ll eat yourself alive if you focus on the woulda/could/shoulda and end up making more mistakes. In poker (and investing) you do the best you can with incomplete information and sometimes it sucks. Move on.

Fonts are bolder than that. Long overdue. It’s like the NAACP not inviting trump to it’s annual meeting.

The left ever so slowly actually beginning to almost turn down the road of understanding you have to fight your enemy.

If you aren’t a fan of authoritarianism, you may want to read up on what living in China is like …or Tibet, Urghurs, Taiwan…EU and China are generally pretty far apart in position and trajectory though some places in Europe definitely asking the question in the last 10 years how Europe would feel about fascist ascendency.

I work in HR. I might steal this as some perspective for when someone insults the collective intelligence by claiming they couldn’t have known and shouldn’t suffer any consequences.

Bad HR immediately posts a sign saying Soda pouring near inclined load conveyance is prohibited by Management and has everyone take escalator soda slip safety training.

Good HR fires the dipshit as an example of what happens to dipshits, so people self-regulate and much less collective time can be spent on Stupid island having moronic conversations.

If they claim you left your favorite sweater there it’s dead to you. Car keys? They can have it.

And was in Mexico during COVID IIRC

Part of this complete breakfast.

“it’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not.”

I’m pretty sure anyone in the US has had enough pharma ads smashed in their faces for conditions they don’t have their quota for a free vaccine should have been met about 20 years ago.